Religion: Inisfada & Mrs. Brady

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"Bill" Macaulay first met the Bradys when he was a career diplomat in the British Civil Service. Born of a good Irish county family (no kin to British Historian Thomas Babington Macaulay, Lord Macaulay), he transferred to the Irish Free State service when it was set up in 1924 was sent to Washington as secretary, later became counsellor at the Free State Legation. Dark-haired, affable, fond of bridge, Counsellor Macaulay was popular in the quiet set of Mrs. Lawrence Townsend in Washington, sometimes saw-Mrs. Brady at parties. In 1930 he was appointed Free State Consul General in Manhattan, where mutual social circles brought him closer to Mrs. Brady, now a widow who spent her autumns in the U. S.. springs and summers in Italy, Carlsbad, England. Last summer "Bill" Macaulay, an unostentatiously "good"' Catholic, was in his third year as Minister to the Vatican and Mrs. Brady was living in Casa del Sole, the villa near the Vatican which Nicholas Brady' bought years ago. Minister Macaulay asked the woman who had become his friend to be his wife. She reflected, departed for the U. S. and sent him her answer during the ensuing months. Her ''yes," denied by loyal friends until Mrs. Brady felt ready to admit it, was a surprise to Manhattanites who had seen the two casually together.

The functions of a Minister to the Vatican from a small state like the Irish Free State are pleasant and nominal. Minister Macaulay maintains a friendly interest in the Roman houses of study of Irish orders, pays a formal visit once a week to Secretary of State Pacelli, spends the rest of his time representing his State at Rome's innumerable parties and church ceremonies. Presumably after his marriage Minister Macaulay will, unless perhaps transferred to Washington as Minister, use his modest Rome legation as an office, and Casa del Sole as his official home. But while his lady will take her place in Papal society, she has promised to spend several months each year attending to her various U. S. causes.